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...sweltering summer of 2006, New Orleans' anxious tourism industry could use a truckload of the stuff. Hurricane Katrina brought the city's multi-billion convention and tourism industry to a dead halt. Meetings and conventions that had been scheduled years ahead of time cancelled, along with the hundreds of thousands of attendees that would have filled hotel rooms and restaurants. For months, the few casual tourists who showed up were almost exclusively families of FEMA contractors and construction workers. (Paradoxically, two of those neighborhoods that were hardest hit, and where few tourists ventured before the storm - the Lower Ninth Ward...
...riding on the city's ability to lure visitors back. For better or worse, New Orleans has long staked a disproportionate share of its economic health on the tourism and convention business. Before Katrina, tourist spending pumped up to $6 billion into the local economy, employed 80,000 and fueled more than one-third of the city's operating budget. Getting those visitors back is key to the city's recovery, and to its long-term viability - perhaps even more so in a smaller, post-Katrina economy, when luring new business and industry will likely be an even greater challenge...
...Tourism officials have rolled out a new advertising campaign, featuring a new slogan ("COME FALL IN LOVE WITH NEW ORLEANS ALL OVER AGAIN") and homegrown celebrities such as Emeril Lagasse, Wynton Marsalis and actress Patricia Clarkson. But prospective tourists could be forgiven if they're still confused. Almost since the slow recovery began, New Orleans has been sending mixed messages, begging the federal government for more financial help and asking the state to send in the National Guard to help battle a violent crime wave, while assuring skittish tourists and convention planners that the city's historic attractions are intact...
...Just because they are mixed, however, doesn't mean that the messages aren't all valid - and therein lies the marketing problem. "Our residential areas have been severely devastated," says Angele Davis, Louisiana's secretary of culture, recreation and tourism. "We're rebuilding those residential areas. But right now our tourism infrastructure is intact, and that's the message we have to get out there. If we don't, we will lose the small cultural venues and businesses, the music clubs and galleries and antique shops that make up the fabric of New Orleans. They're holding on. They...
...that this country badly needs. Although Ghana is in much better shape than many other African countries, its GDP is $9.4 billion, or about $420 per capita, which ranks below most Asian countries. "The potential for economic impact is very significant," says Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey, Ghana's Minister for Tourism and Diasporan Relations. "As you look around now, you see the role African Americans are playing in the corporate world, as mechanical engineers, architects, doctors--right across the gamut...